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Rebecca Carter

Rebecca Carter Literary

Submission status
Open
Submission route
Email
Response time
Assume no reply = no after 12 weeks
Last checked
10 days ago

About

Rebecca has been committed to nurturing novelists and non-fiction writers with original and refreshing perspectives on the world since starting out in publishing in 1994.

She worked as an editor at Random House from 1997 to 2012, before becoming an agent at Janklow & Nesbit UK in 2012. She founded Rebecca Carter Literary in January 2023, combining close personal attention to her authors with her international networks.

What they represent

Contemporary FictionCrimeCurrent AffairsHistorical Non-FictionLiterary FictionNarrative Non-FictionOther Non-FictionPoliticsThriller

Looking for

  • crime & Thriller
  • novels that take risks with voice, form and storytelling, and are compulsive, ideaful and humane
  • original thinkers and writers in the areas of history, politics, culture, psychology, science, nature and the environment

Not looking for

  • straightforward memoir
  • academic monographs
  • young adult
  • children's
  • poetry
  • illustrated books
  • screenplays

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Clients include

  • Alice Albinia
  • Xiaolu Guo
  • Olivia Laing
  • Rebecca Stott
  • Ferdia Lennon
  • Gavin McCrea
  • Nell Stevens
  • Elly Griffiths

Agency submission guidelines

Email your submission to submissions@rebeccacarterliterary.com, addressed to either Rebecca or Tilda (not both). Put the covering letter in the body of the email, with the material as an attachment; only digital submissions are accepted (Word documents or PDFs), no external links, and a sample of writing must be attached. Title the email: "Submission: [your name] [TITLE OF SUBMISSION]" and save files as "[your name] [TITLE OF SUBMISSION] [type of document]". Ensure the typescript is 1.5 or double spaced with page numbers. For Fiction, send the first three chapters (or 10k words) along with a short synopsis of the whole book. For Non-Fiction, send a detailed proposal, along with (if possible) a sample chapter or sample writing. RCL does not represent young adult, Children's, Poetry, Illustrated books or Screenplays (with a few exceptions for existing clients).

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    Rebecca Carter Literary

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